This question bothers me very much. I wanted to open source result of my thesis, which is quite interesting for theoretical CS, but my supervisor strongly recom

This question bothers me very much. I wanted to open source result of my thesis, which is quite interesting for theoretical CS, but my supervisor strongly recommends to avoid publishing the source code because it is a complex system solving non-trivial problems and his opinion it would be a great start up basis. I'm not in a position to get full time job and definitely not an entrepreneur, I'd like to collaborate on my ideas, see it grow and may be become useful. The counter-argument from my peers is that it will be just ai-copyed with slight change in variable naming.